Frank Terence McCarthy spent 1961 in Thailand as a company commander in an Army Engineer Construction Battalion living in the jungle 55 miles east of Bangkok near a village called Panoum Sarakham. This was a maturing experience since he was father/mother to 200 troops - half of whom got "Dear Johns." In Thailand, he met the person who probably most made a difference in his life - a Redemptorist missionary priest, Father Ray Brennan (a former photographer for the Chicago Sunday News). He drove about 20 miles north of camp every Saturday to bring himself down for Sunday mass.
